What did Millard Fillmore do during his presidency?

Answer 1

He signed the Compromise of 1850 which kept America from a civil war for a decade. He also added California to the Union as a free state. Millard Fillmore unfortunately enacted the Slave Act which denied slaves the right to a trial.

Answer 2

He signed the Compromise of 1850 which kept America from a civil war for a decade. He also added California to the Union as a free state. Millard Fillmore unfortunately enacted the Slave Act which denied slaves the right to a trial.

Answer 3

Millard Fillmore became president upon the sudden death of Zachary Taylor.

• Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850. Compromises never please everyone, but the clause that set stiff penalties for helping runaway slaves escape was strongly opposed by the abolitionist section of the Whig party, so this support no doubt kept Fillmore from being nominated for a second term.
  
• Fillmore sent Commodore Matthew Perry to open up trade with Japan
• California was admitted as a state.

Answer 4

Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the US. He enforced the Fugitive Slave Act.

He also enacted the Compromise of 1850. He was President in 1850-1853

Answer 5

He kept the union for four more years and opened Japan to Western trade

Answer 6

admitted California as a state. abolished slave trading in the the District of Columbia.